Main entry:

Hammack, David C.

Title & Author:

Power and society : greater New York at the turn of the century / David C. Hammack.

Edition:

Columbia University Press Morningside ed.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 1987, ©1982.

Description:

xix, pages 422 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.

Series:

Columbia history of urban life

Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1982.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-401) and index.
Contemporary perceptions, historical problems -- Economic change and continuity -- Social transformations -- Tradition and reality -- Economic elites and mayoral politics -- Non-economic elites and mayoral politics -- Urbanization policy : the creation of greater New York -- Economic policy : planning the first subway -- Cultural policy : centralizing the public school system -- Competing elites and the dispersal of power.

ISBN:

0231066414 (pbk.)
9780231066419 (pbk.)

Subject:

Economic history.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Stadscultuur.
New York (N.Y.) Politics and government To 1898.
New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) Economic conditions.
New York (N.Y.) Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) Administration Jusqu'à 1898.
New York (N.Y.) Administration 1898-1951.
New York (State) New York.
New York (City), 1860-1910

Added entries:

Columbia history of urban life.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 188371
Call No.: ID:90-B6698
Status: Available